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by J.David McSwane A widely supported effort to give adults who were adopted access to their birth records — and the potential to find birth parents or their genetic health risks — was upended in the Texas Senate Wednesday. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, presiding officer of the Senate, didn’t call for a vote on House Bill 984 before a midnight …
“institutionalization and human trafficking”, where “women and babies were considered little more than a commodity for trade amongst religious orders” A previously unpublished report by the HSE in 2012 examined Bessborough’s own records. The in-depth findings and conclusions are damning. Conall Ó Fátharta reports FOR years, places like Bessborough Mother and Baby Home were spoken of in hushed tones. For …
“Parents are targeted by recruiters and children are bought or stolen or sold.” ‘Millions of children in overseas orphanages … would dearly love to have parents’, claims Tony Abbott, and his government is making intercountry adoption easier. Screenshot/Intercountry Adoption Australia Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be …
LONDON – When Emily and Matt Knudsen began the lengthy process of adopting a child from Africa, they believed they would be saving an orphan in distress. “Our biggest desire was to meet a need, to adopt a child who truly had no other options,” said Emily, at the family’s home near San Francisco, Calif. Motivated by their Christian faith, …
Six orphanages were found to have been buying babies who were then adopted by families from other countries. One of the convicted middlemen in that case is now out of jail. He and his mother spoke to our China correspondent, Marketplace’s Scott Tong. SCOTT TONG: As Chen Zhijing tells it, her family stumbled into the baby-selling business. In the late …